Best Paint & Sip Parties In DFW

Paint and sip parties are a great way to tap into your creative side alone, with a date, with friends or even as a corporate team-building project. Here are a few of the best places in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for paint and sip fun.

Colors To Cocktails
2816 Central Drive, Ste. 140
Bedford, TX 76021
(817) 283-0464
www.colorstococktails.com

Whether you want to participate in "Thirsty Thursday" where you create a painting of a cocktail or sip a mimosa and paint the afternoon away while creating a wonderful seascape, Colors To Cocktails provides a 16 x 20-inch canvas and all of the materials to recreate the featured painting of the day. You are free to bring adult beverages, ice and snacks. Colors To Cocktails provides cups, bottle openers/corkscrews and ice buckets. People age 16 and older may participate in the painting events but one must be over 21 to consume alcoholic beverages.

Painting With A Twist
3220 Gus Thomasson Rd., Ste. 219
Mesquite, TX 75150
(972) 613-4419
www.paintingwithatwist.com/mesquite

From birthday parties to girls' night out, Painting with a Twist has a variety of painting events. You are welcome to bring your favorite wine or beverage and snacks. The Mesquite Painting with a Twist location is a relaxed environment where one can paint and have fun. Ice and cups are provided and a wine chiller and refrigerator are available. Painting with a Twist offers discounted painting events for senior citizens.

Pinot's Palette
6465 E. Mockingbird Lane, Ste. 430
Dallas, TX 75214
(214) 827-4668
www.pinotspalette.com/Lakewood

The Lakewood Pinot's Palette offers a variety of painting events. You can choose from a two- or three-hour class which comes with an instructor, your canvas, paint and an apron to wear for the class. It also provides the glassware, paper plates and plastic ware. You are free to bring wine or the beverage of your choice as well as food. Pressed for time and not able to bring food or wine? Not to worry, local restaurants like upscale casual Olivella's Italian restaurant is behind Pinot's Palette and fast casual Boston Market is across the street. Pinot's Palette sells wine including vintages by Lakewood's Times Ten Cellars. Plus PK's Fine Wine and Spirits is located in the same shopping center for other adult beverages. Special painting events like date night, parent and child as well as paint your pet classes are very popular.

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Sip-N-Doodle
230 W. Parker Rd., Ste. 200
Plano, TX 75075
(972) 595-7931
www.sipndoodle.com

Everyone can produce their own original painting by selecting from over 500 images. Even in a group-painting event, one can create a city landscape while another creates a forest scene or anything they desire. A 12 x 16-inch canvas is provided, along with an apron, paints, brushes and an instructor for a two-hour class. The Plano Sip-n-Doodle location makes free popcorn from a movie-style popcorn maker. Ice, glassware and corkscrews are provided and you are free to bring food and drinks of your choice.

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Robin D. Everson is a native Chicagoan who resides in Dallas, Texas. Her appreciation for art, food, wine, people and places has helped her become a well-respected journalist. A life-long lover of education, Robin seeks to learn and enlighten others about culture. You can find her work at Examiner.com